Abstract:
Cooperative development in Tanzania took different forms and scenario, cooperatives in that
country has long history as from 1920's. That divide cooperative into two major categories, one
being colonial cooperatives that was mostly agriculture cooperatives aiming to feed the colonial
economies, and secondly the post independence cooperatives which was basically officialised
model of cooperatives, basically they were established by the state and the community to fit in
the readily established and directed structures. The promoted and developed cooperative mostly
has remained not documented, their either going to lose their history for cooperative information
or lose the track from their historical trend on cooperative business and to create a gape the new
generation will not capture. The paper aimed at evaluating the scenario which shows the
elements that becomes the root source for the loss of cooperative information for developing of
cooperative archive. It will also develop strategies that can be used to have some documents
available for archival development basing on Tanzania experience
